Zulip api doesn't work with python 3.8

[janLo]

Using the zulip api on a current python 3.8 causes an AttributeError because of the removal of linux_distribution from platform:

AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'linux_distribution'
[...]
  File "__init__.py", line 1007, in get_profile
    return self.call_endpoint(
  File "__init__.py", line 623, in call_endpoint
    return self.do_api_query(marshalled_request, versioned_url, method=method,
  File "__init__.py", line 505, in do_api_query
    self.ensure_session()
  File "__init__.py", line 450, in ensure_session
    session.headers.update({"User-agent": self.get_user_agent()})
  File "__init__.py", line 466, in get_user_agent
    vendor, vendor_version, dummy = platform.linux_distribution()

See https://bugs.python.org/issue28167 and https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3906/files for a possible workaround.

[janLo]

Oh, I've just seen 63bc9b8. Can this be released soon?

[neiljp]

@janLo There has been discussion on releasing a new version over the last month, on the #integrations stream at chat.zulip.org.

@eeshangarg FYI :)

[mikaelmello]

Additionally, I am getting errors because of typed-ast: python/typed_ast#126

[neiljp]

@janLo Can you clarify whether this works for you at this point?

@mikaelmello Thanks for the link; to clarify, is this just an upstream problem as per the one you point to, (which seems fixed), or are you seeing it with a zulip dev environment?

[mikaelmello]

Hi Neil, this is an upstream problem that was present when I was trying to setup my environment. I've managed to fix it by bumping the version of the dependency. Em qua, 1 de jan de 2020 21:17, Neil Pilgrim <notifications@github.com> escreveu:

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[eeshangarg]

@mikaelmello Thanks for the response! @neiljp I'm guessing we can close this one then?

[timabbott]

I think that's correct, closing.